“I’m truly sorry for the part I played in their deaths and it is they that I will remember for the rest of my life.”

Leslye Polito, the mother of crash victim Daniele Polito, 23, said she felt “disappointed, very upset and primarily let down by the justice system”.

Sue and Phil Grimstone, whose son Matthew, 23 also lost his life whist driving past on the A27, said they were “devastated”.

They said: “There seems to be no justice for our son Matthew and all 11 men who died in such tragic circumstances.

“Why are we allowing any form of aerobatics to be performed when there is now doubt concerning any pilot’s ability to avoid becoming cognitively impaired from the normal G forces that will be experienced during an aerobatic display?

“Matthew had no interest in airshows, he could not have cared less. Knowing he died because an aircraft was being flown for fun, for the entertainment of others, makes it even harder to bear.”

Sarah Stewart, a partner at Stewarts, who represents many of the bereaved families, called for a wider investigation to prevent future tragedies.

She said: “It is now almost four years since the Shoreham Airshow disaster killed 11 innocent men. The bereaved families have had to painfully re-live the circumstances of their loved ones’ death again and again.

“The families want answers and a verdict will go some way towards that. But it is only one part of the jigsaw.”

Rebecca Smith, of Irwin Mitchell, representing some of the others who were affected, added: “Now that the criminal proceedings have concluded attention will now turn to the inquest where the entirety of the Shoreham Airshow tragedy can be fully examined.”

The crash saw the greatest loss of life at an air show since 1952, when 31 people, including the pilot, were killed at Farnborough Airshow.

Prosecutors had claimed the 2015 crash was due to “pilot error” and although Mr Hill was normally considered “careful and competent”, he had taken “risks” in the past, suggesting he sometimes played “fast and loose” with the rules and may have had a “more cavalier attitude to safety than was appropriate”.

In 2017 a report by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch also found the disaster was caused by pilot error after the plane was too slow and too low during a loop manoeuvre.